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SENATE,  Janoary  24,  1865. — Read  first  and  second  times  and 
referred  to  Committee  on  Military  Aifairs.  Feb.  3, 1865. — Report- 
ed without  amendmert  and  ordered  to  be  printed. 

I  rioupR  Engrossed  Bill,  No.  350. 


A.    BILL 

To  diminish  the  number  of  exemptions  and  details. 

1  The.  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 

2  That  so  much  of  the    "Act  to  organize   forces  to  serve  during 

3  the  war."  approved  February  IT,  1864,  as  exempts  one  person 

4  as  overseer  or  agriculturist  on  each    farm   or    plantation  upon 

5  which  there  were,  at  specified  times,  fifteen  able-bodied  field 
C  hands,  l)etween  the  ages  of  sixteen  and  fifty,  upon  certain  con- 
7  ditions,  is  hereby  repealed. 

1  Sec.  2.     No   exemption   or   detail   shall  be  granted  by  the 

2  President  or  Secretary  of  War.  by  virtue  of  said  Act.  except 

3  of  persons  lawfully  reported  by  a  board  of  surgeons  as  unable 

4  to  perform  active  service  in  the  field;  persons  over  the  ao-e  of 

5  forty  years,  and  of  artizans,  mechanics  and  persons  of  scientific 

6  skill  employed  by,  or  working  for  the  government,  and  shown 

7  by  proper  testimony   to  be   artizans,  meclianics   or  persons  of 

8  scientific  skill,  and  with  the  same  exceptions  all  exemptions  and 

9  details  heretofore  granted   by  the   President  or   Secretary  of 
10  War,  by  virtue  of  said  Act,  are  hereby  revoked.     The  bonds 


11  heretofore  given  by  exempted  and  detailed  men  shall  bind  thera 

12  to  comply  with  the  same  only  to  an  extent  bearing  the  same  pro- 

13  portion  to  the  whole  amount  which  would  be  due  thereon  in  one 

14  year,  if  this  act  had  not  passed,  as  the  time  they  shall  have  been 
15  exempted  or  detailed  bears  to  a  year. 

1  Sec.  3.    No  person  shall   be  exempt  by   virtue  of  the  "  Act 

2  to  exempt  contractors  for  carrying   the  mails  of  the  Confede- 

3  rate  States,  and  the  drivers  of  post  coaches  and  hacks  from 

4  military  service,"  approved  April  14,  1863,  unless  such  person 

5  shall  be  over  forty -five  years  of  age,  except  contractors  person - 

6  ally  engaged  in  the  execution  of  contracts  now  existing; 


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